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An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.
Walter Raleigh
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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things first, they will be more careful to keep thy counsel, because they have more to lose than thou hast the second, they will esteem thee for thyself, and not for that which thou dost possess.
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There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being.
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Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
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Love likes not the falling fruit, Nor the withered tree.
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The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.
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A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy he will be silent on his more personal interests, or, if he must speak, will veil them under conventional forms.
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Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.
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In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.
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No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.
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All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.
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If any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou hast to spare if he press thee further, he is not thy friend at all, for friendship rather chooseth harm to itself than offereth it. If thou be bound for a stranger, thou art a fool if for a merchant, thou puttest thy estate to learn to swim.
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But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
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Trust few men above all, keep your follies to yourself.
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Hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.
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He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.
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The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.
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But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.
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Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution whatsoever is now, was heretofore and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.
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To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.
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The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.
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